Environmental Information Awareness Capacity Building and Livelihood Programme (EIACP)

• EIACP Programme Centre at Raipur has created a world record by taking a LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) pledge of over 12.38 lakh by people to conserve environment.

ABOUT EIACP

• It is a project funded by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
• It is one of the Central Sector sub-scheme being implemented in alignment with Mission LiFE.
• The Environmental Information System (ENVIS) is renamed EIACP (Environmental Information, Awareness, Capacity Building and Livelihood Programme).
  • ENVIS came into existence as a planned programme in 1983.
• ENVIS EIACP serves as a one-stop platform for the dissemination of environmental information, informed policy formulation on various facets of the environment and facilitation of alternate livelihoods through green skilling.
• It is dedicated to raising awareness, building capacity, and promoting sustainable actions among individuals and communities across India.

ABOUT MISSION LIFE (LIFESTYLE FOR ENVIRONMENT)

• It was first proposed by the Indian PM at COP 26 (Glasgow).
• It is envisioned as an India-led global mass movement that will nudge individual and collective action to protect and preserve the environment.
• It emboldens the spirit of the P3 model, i.e. Pro Planet People.
• It functions on the basic principles of ‘Lifestyle of the planet, for the planet and by the planet’.